Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel

[Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>]

On 09/30/05 17:15, Andrew Patterson wrote:
>>Sorry but I completely fail to see this argument., locks it, then hangs.
>>
>>How will it "fail for most storage managament apps"?
> 
> 
> Let's see, one example:
> 
> Process A opens an attribute and writes to it.  Process B opens another
> attribute and writes to it, affecting the result that process A will see
> from its subsequent read. I suppose you could lock every attribute, but
> that would be very error-prone, and not allow much concurrency.

Why should synchronization between Process A and Process B 
reading storage attributes take place in the kernel?

They can synchronize in user space.

	Luben
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